Word: rewritemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk from home, burly, vigorous Bill Knowland looked just the man to take charge. But as the months passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed with his staff. Son Joe occupied himself with writing memos to copy boys (No talking to rewritemen) and drawing up rules for staffers (Don't throw cigarette butts on the floor). Overtime was cut to the bone, and staffers who quit were not replaced...
...printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show and the station on which a local TV newsbeat originated...
...Inquirer management had expected to clear out only its deadwood, it lost more than it asked for. Many of its best men walked out-with as much as $12,000 in bonus and severance pay. Among those that left: respected Medical Editor Joseph Nolen, Rewritemen Kos Semonski and John St. George Joyce, both nominees for Philadelphia Press Association awards for 1958. In all, the paper poured out an estimated $400,000 in resignation...
...fact that the four Cowles dailies are good newspapers. They cover the dogfights as well as the international crises, send reporters to club meetings as well as the Kremlin. The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football plays. Crack circulation departments turn loose...
...last week it was plain to Journal readers-and to the rival Dispatch-that the feud had turned abruptly to friendship. In two exclusive Journal stories on the administration's slum-clearance projects, rewritemen carefully restored the Jr. to Jim Murray's name, while Editor Farrell ran the politician's picture on Page One for the first time in months. City Hall, in turn, promised to restore the Journal's traditional half-share of legal ads. Lucky Farrell promptly forged ahead with plans for a morning edition to compete with the Dispatch, started interviewing staffers from...